Zcash has ignored the fact that optional privacy is NO PRIVACY AT ALL for over four years.
All major blockchain analysis companies support Zcash now, but they don't support Hush.
At this point, it seems that Zcash has no mandatory privacy because it's financially profitable for them to not have privacy, so they can sell services to ChainAnalysis, CipherTrace and friends.
<h4>Hush Is Not In Debt To Investors</h4>
Zcash raised $3 Million USD from investors, which they must pay back. This is why the price of ZEC in satoshis (not USD), always goes down. They are paying back initial investors by selling parts of the Founders Reward. Recently Zcash *renamed* the Founders Reward, and made it even harder to track where the money goes. This does not change anything at all, just makes them look shadier.
<h4>Hush Relies On Bitcoin For Security</h4>
Zcash stupidly tries to compete and replace Bitcoin, Hush relies on BTC mainnet for protection from mining attacks.
<h4>Hush Tells The Public The Truth</h4>
Zcash tries to hide security problems and their various shady dealings with various organizations.
<h4>Hush Uses The Same Zero-Knowledge Mathematics, For Free</h4>
Zcash spent millions of dollars to develop bleeding edge new mathematics, called *zk-SNARKs*, which
Hush uses *for free*. Zcash Company additionally spends obscene amounts of money maintaining this code
as an upstream, *for free*. Zcash has no "technological moat" and Hush takes all the best ideas, *for free*,
and combines them with the best ideas from Monero. Thanks Zcash!
<h4>Hush Is Free Software</h4>
We are a GPLv3 Free Software community, so Hush owns it's own patents and intellectual property. If you
use our stuff in an uncool way, we will send Software Freedom Law Center to you. Additionally, Hush developers
are open to granting MIT/Apache2 licenses to companies who want to use our code in business ventures, which we support. We just don't support writing code for free and then companies taking it, making their riches, and giving nothing back. So you must pay before you play.
<h4>Hush Has Network-Level Privacy</h4>
Zcash (and Bitcoin itself) have no network-level privacy, unfortunately. It makes sense for Bitcoin, because it is not a privacy coin, and everything is public. Encrypting connections between Bitcoin full nodes would mostly be a waste of resources, and it would prevent some very old or resource constrained computers from joining the network, potentially. OK Satoshi, you get a pass from Duke.
Now Zcash, on the otherhand, is supposed to be a *privacy coin* right? It would benefit from network-level privacy such as SSL/TLS (like the little green lock in your browser), but they never implemented it. Either they are stupid and lazy, or they are smart and realize that since most Zcash transactions don't use privacy, it's basically worthless to add network encryption to Zcash.
Hush has *mandatory* network-level TLS 1.3 encryption between all peers, the current best we have, used by all modern webservers. Hush nodes have mandatory privacy *on the blockchain* and *on the network* and these two things together combine to make Hush *exponentially* more private than Zcash.
